BigCommerce is a SaaS platform that allows SMBs to develop eCommerce sites. Features include the capabilities to design the storefront, configure products, manage payments, generate traffic, and optimize conversion.
$29.95
per month
Magento Open Source
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Magento Open Source is an ecommerce content management solution originally developed by Varien Inc and presently supported by Adobe. The Open Source product is for developers and merchants that is available as a free download, and supported with free upgrades from the Magento Community.
BigCommerce is way better than 3dcart, it was comparable to Shopify but with the new product promotions available it is better than Shopify now. It is better than Magento in that you do not need dedicated programmers to make simple changes to your store!!! The best part about …
Every criterion we evaluated against BigCommerce either won outright or held its own. What got us over the line was the incredible personal support at every step of the way from onboarding and implementation through to BAU. I had a support ticket this morning which I resolved …
Open source Magento was a full-time job. Now, I have a lot more freedom giving me the ability to take on more responsibilities and get my job done more efficiently. There were many headaches associated with Magento and depreciating version 1 and forcing users to migrate to …
With BigCommerce you have great support (not with the open-source alternatives) without the high order fee that comes with Shopify. You also never have to worry about server settings or up-time. And you still have a lot of freedom with the design and functionality.
BigCommerce is a much more user friendly, manageable and cost-effective tool than Magento, which we previously used. We struggled to find a decent Magento developer and it was an extremely expensive platform which we didn't really need. Shopify for us was limited with our …
WooCommmerce and Magento are great, provided you have a consistent developer team that can constantly manage it and clients have the budget for that. But most times, the amount of money spent on developer managed sites is better spent on growing the company instead of custom …
Shopify: BigCommerce has more features at the price point we need. 1ShoppingCart: BigCommerce is far more versatile and can sustain our business for a greater amount of growth than 1ShoppingCart. Magento: While Magento was attractive for its customization, it would have required …
BigCommerce is a great and powerful platform that has lots of upside. We still have a couple basic sites running on BigCommerce, mainly for backing up customer and order data. At this time, we have moved most of our businesses over to Shopify Plus b/c we feel that we get much …
BigCommerce is a dream compared to Magento. Magento in not intuitive at all and nothing is where you think it should be! BigCommerce all day over here! I will say there are some functions I miss from Magento such as the ability to schedule promotions.
My business previously used Big Cartel which was perfect for a small artsy business. However when we grew, Big Cartel did not have all the functionality that we needed - such as subcategories and sub-subcategories. Wix was attractive but it felt a little like an instagram …
In Magento, you had to create a theme from scratch and they told me that would be 30K average to start which was way out of our budget. I really liked Shopify's site and features but they were twice the price when compared to BigCommerce and I didn't think the extra features …
BigCommerce is by far the easiest, most secure, and most worry-free of the competition. It falls a little short to Magento in the coupon code area, and Shopify has more out of the box gimmicks, but, in the end, they all fall short compared to BigCommerce.
Magento 1 was sunsetting so we initially looked to upgrade to Magento Cloud or Magento 2 Open Source. The conversion process was horrible and unable to be performed by our staff. The costs that developers quoted us were upwards of $100,000 PER SITE (we have 6!). This, of …
We started the business on Yahoo! Merchant 15 years ago. Yahoo! had a difficult to use proprietary language called RTML that I had to learn to be able to customize the pages. There were many things that I couldn't customize or couldn't access. I was really excited about the …
We were using Magento, our initial platform for several years. We switched to BigCommerce because they were a more robust platform and offered 24-hour customer service, which we did NOT have with Magento. We were always looking for a new IT company to help us with our updates …
I've also used Ultracart, Wix, and Square for shopping sites. Amoung the hosted platforms it's hands down my favorite. It's most similar to Shopify except that Bigcommerce has more native features, which is a good thing. With more native features there is less dependence from …
Shopify Plus simply lacks features that come out-of-the-box with BigCommerce. Their app store is impressive, but it feels like they need it so their customers can get all the features included with BC. Magento is extremely powerful, but it lacks all the conveniences that come …
Initially, we thought that it was going to be cost effective but now I regret my opinion. Shopify is more cost-effective than BigCommerce because Shopify doesn't have a sales threshold and you don't pay more if you surpass the sales threshold.
5874 are BigCommerce, Shopify, WooCommerce accredited. However, BigCommerce is proving to us and our clients time-and-time again that it is the best eCommerce platform for fast-growing and mid-market brands. BigCommerce lowers your total cost of ownership with pricing at a …
WooCommerce, when fully "plugged-in" required server resources which drowned our host. We hit a wall with growth due to these resources and researched redevelopment on Woo or migration to a new platform. We chose the latter. Shopify and BigCommerce were limited to their closed …
I inherited the Magento Open Source website we are currently using, but after evaluating everything that was wanted for the new website, we switched over to Shopify. After using Shopify for some of our other websites, we learned that you have to pay a large sum each month to …
Magneto Open Source allowed for a lot of customizations, and it seemed like a cheaper version. However, the cost added up really quickly. I would probably go with Shopify or BigCommerce for a small business when making decisions in the future.
The three main reasons we went with Magento: 1. It was recommended by our NCR Counterpoint, VAR. 2. It's the best platform to integrate tightly with that NCR Counterpoint. It's also the best eventual platform to integrate with our wholesale ERP, so it's one platform to run …
Magento is the heaviest by far, in a few senses of the word. It has the steepest learning curve both for administrators and programmers, but it also has the highest potential to run a high traffic, high volume ecommerce store. Other products will get you up and running faster …
Magento is hands down better than any hosted platform (i.e., BC), but only if you have a good development team. Hosted platforms are very limiting as to what you can accomplish "outside the box." Magento is much better than WooCommerce in its user friendliness and its …
Compared to other small - medium sized business e-commerce solutions, Magento is by far requires the most development resources to implement and maintain. Creating a custom Drupal or WordPress based e-commerce solution requires development resources as well, but the complexity …
Magento CE stands up better than the other CMS systems in many regards. It is cheaper and easier to use than Drupal or Joomla! by a wide margin. It is more secure than any WordPress website, and unless you specifically need it, It does not store credit card information making …